²⁶ They came back to Moses and Aaron and all the ·Israelites [^Lcommunity/congregation/assembly of the sons/^Tchildren of Israel] at Kadesh, in the ·Desert [Wilderness] of Paran. The men reported to them and showed ·everybody [^Lall the community/congregation/assembly] the fruit from the land. ²⁷ They ·told [reported to] Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us, and it is a ·fertile land [^Lland flowing with milk and honey; Ex. 3:8]! Here is some of its fruit. ²⁸ But the people who live there are strong. Their cities are walled and very large. We even saw some Anakites there. ²⁹ The Amalekites live in the ·southern area [Negev; Ex. 17:8–16]; the Hittites, Jebusites [^Cinhabitants in and around Jerusalem], and Amorites live in the mountains; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan River.”

³⁰ Then Caleb told the people near Moses to be quiet, and he said, “We should certainly go up and take the land for ourselves. We can certainly do it.”

³¹ But the men who had gone with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” ³² And those men gave the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] a bad report about the land they ·explored [spied on], saying, “The land that we ·explored [spied on] ·is too large to conquer [^Ldevours its inhabitants]. All the people we saw are very tall. ³³ We saw the Nephilim people there [^Cperhaps named for the pre-flood people mentioned in Gen. 6:4]. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them.”